Word: betrayal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were at an English-run boarding school in Germany, they found some cricket flannels still marked with their right names and tore out the labels with the desperation of criminals on the brink of discovery. "The thought that at any moment an indiscreet remark or a chance encounter . . . might betray us," writes Vyvyan, "was a sword of Damocles constantly hanging over our heads." In time, to make security even more certain, the boys were separated, Cyril to stay on in Germany, Vyvyan to be sent to a Jesuit school in Monaco...
...high school and college physiology courses makes but a feeble onslaught against the fortress of centuries-old legendary beliefs," say Branch and Reiser. Though moderns may not believe that the presence of a menstruating woman turns milk sour, keeps bread from rising and wilts cut flowers, they betray holdovers of superstition...
...science fiction off its rocket? Definitely, says Cleveland's Robert Plank, a psychiatric social worker, in a current medical journal. Argues Plank (in International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics): many science-fiction plots betray "schizophrenic manifestations" in the minds of their authors, who work out their fantasies by literary catharsis. Similarly, he concludes, readers release the steam from their own unconscious by reading the fantasies...
Regarding your coverage of the ecumenical rhubarb: The comments [of the editor of the Christian Century] must surely place him foremost in the growing ranks of anti-Catholics who betray their religious inferiority complex by blindly condemning the church's dogma of infallibility. Rather than attempt to disprove this claim, the editor prefers to disqualify this assertion by simply stating it cannot be true . . . The amalgamation of quasi-secular interests and ministerial tea parties which he prefers leads to chaos simplified-the dilemma of the Protestant churches today. By the way, I'm a non-Catholic...
...ceremony that included a ritual mockery and beating. This, according to the authors, is where the mocking and scourging by the soldiers of Pilate really belongs. The Graves-Podro Jesus decided to bring on the Kingdom by his death, and appointed Judas, his "most faithful and perceptive" disciple, to betray him. Taken down from the cross, apparently dead, he revived in the tomb, met with several of his disciples, saw he had made a mistake, and went off to the "Land of Nod" to start all over again...